POSIES

 

can we show you something in laptops? the friendly Amazon gmail read.

isn't that what they used to say in the fancy dress shops?

Can we show you something in your size, madam?

so I imagine a throw back kind of time

and I am indeed among the Diors, the costumes worn

for the grade school plays, of course, the fairytales

which shall it be, the chiffons for the princess

the swiss batiste for the goosegirl?

or I am transported back in time

to a hat shop where all the hats oh JOY

are trimmed with roses, little veils.

no, no laptops today.

thanks anyway.

but I would like a full bouquet

of what my grandmother called

"posies."

mary angela douglas 27 february 2023